Suspenders



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SUSPENDERS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 26, i919.

Patented May 16, 1922.

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SUSPENDERS.

Patented May 16,1922.

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OLNEY CROASDALE, OF BERWYN, PENNSYLVANIA, A-$SIGNOR TO PIONEER SUS- EENDER COMPANY, A COBE'ORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

SUSPENDEBS.

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Application filed June 26,

T 0 all 10 hom it may concern Be it known that I, OLNEY GROASDALE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Berwyn, in the county of Chester, State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Suspenders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in suspenders. The object is to provide an improved suspender adapted to support the garment at four points of attachment, or at two points of attachment as desired.

Referring to the drawings, which illustrate merely by way of example, suitable means for effecting my invention Fig. 1 is a perspective view showing the suspender in operative position.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary elevation on an enlarged scale.

Fig. 3 is a section on lines 33 of Fig. 2.

Fig. l is a section on line 4- 1 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is a section on line 5-5 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 6 is a section on an enlarged scale on line 6-6 of Fig. 2.

Figs. l to 6 inclusive, being on a still larger scale, than that of the preceding figures.

Fig. 7 is a fragmentary view in elevation showing cord extensions.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The shoulder straps 7 and 8 are preferably of elastic material and secured together, in crossed position, at the back of the wearer, as at 9.

The front ends of straps 7 and 8 are looped, as at 10 and 11, passing through the metal slotted members 12 and 13, and secured in proper position of adjustment by the adjustable buckles 1 1 and 15.

The rear ends of straps 7 and 8 are secured to the metal slotted members 16 and 17 respectively.

Connecting straps or extensions 18 and 19, preferably of non-elastic webbing, are of two-ply, or double strand formation, and are connected at one end to slotted members 16 and 17 respectively, and at the other end to the button engaging devices or loop members 21 and 20 respectively. The intermediate portions of said double strand extensions 18 and 19 are threaded through the slotted member 13 and the button engaging loop member 23, in one case, and the slotted Specification of: Letters Patent. Patented May 16, 1929 1919. Serial 1%. 306,785.

member 12 and button engaging loop member 22, in the other case, so that there is a free sliding movement of said extensions 18 and 19 through the slotted member 13 and button engaging loop member 23, in one case, and the loop member 12 and button loop member 22, in the other case, between the permanent terminals of said two strand extensions respectively.

By reference to Fig. 3, it will be noted, that the rear end of the shoulder strap 7 is permanently secured to slotted member 16, by stitching or other suitable means, as at 7, and one end of the two ply extension 18 is in loop formation and is connected with slotted member 16, and permanently secured in place by stitching or other suitable means, as at 18. Fig. 4 shows the method of securing the other two ply ends of extension 18 to the button engagingdoop member 21, by stitching or other suitable means, as at 18 By reference to Figs. 2, 5 and 6, it will be noted that the two strands of extension 18, which is of two-ply formation, are threaded through separate slots provided in members 13 and 23, so that there will be no friction of one ply of the extension against the other adjacent overlying or underlying ply thereof, as it will be noted that, as the button engaging loops are moved into different positions of adjustment, the adjacent plys or strands of each extension will move in opposite directions, and thus must be kept separate from each other as the same pass through the adjusting slotted members.

The connections of strap 8 and of extension 19 are similar to that described and shown. with respect to 7 and 18.

In operation as will now be obvious, the button engaging loops 20, 21, 22 and 23 are adapted to engage the four buttons of the garment nearer the front of the same. The free sliding movement of the extensions 18 and 19 through the slotted members 12 and 13, and the slots of button engaging loop members 22 and 23, secures a constant automatic adjustment, and therefore a balanced tension between the four points of support. An advantage of this construction, over the ordinary two-point suspension device, is that it prevents a sagging of the front part of the garment.

The sliding movement also of the extensions l8 and 19 through said slotted mem bers makes it possible, in case it should at any time be so desired, to permit the buttonengaging loop members 20 and 21 to move up to the slotted members 12 and 13 respectively, and by adjusting the slide buckles l4 and 15, to take up the slack, the device may be readily turned into a two-point suspender construction. 1

While the extensions 18- and 19 are shown in Figs. 1-6, inc., in two strand or double ply strap formation, it will be obvious that these extensions may be in the form of cords as shown in Fig. 7

OLNEY CR-QASDALE. 

